Many of you use EndNote to harvest or gather PDFs in your EndNote Library. It’s a huge time saver when you are trying to collect the articles you need for a grant or manuscript. The library has changed how we are able to do this and you need to update your settings as soon as possible. If you don’t make these changes, your copy of EndNote will stop harvesting PDFs. Our Proxy setting has changed as well – that’s the thing that authenticates you when you are not on campus and trying to harvest PDFs. Take the time to make this change now, the new settings are already working.

In Endnote PC, go to the “Edit” drop down menu and choose “Preferences“. For EndNote MAC, you’ll find “Preferences” under the EndNote X8 menu. Once you are in the EndNote Preferences box, make sure you have “Find Full Text” selected.

Check all 4 of the checkboxes. The “OpenURL Path:” field should be

https://primo.hsl.ucdenver.edu/openurl/01UCOHS/01UCOHS?

Copy and paste this into the field or type it very deliberately. Uppercase matters and must be typed exactly as shown. Include the “?” at the end. Please note the URL begins with https.

You only need to fill in the “Authenticate with: URL:” field if you use EndNote when you are off campus. Even if you use the OIT VPN, you need to configure the “Authenticate with” field. If you never use EndNote from off campus then you may leave this field blank. If you are using EndNote remotely, the “Authenticate with: URL” should be

https://proxy.hsl.ucdenver.edu/

If you need assistance or would like us to help walk you through any of these changes, you can reach the Education & Reference department in the library from 9:00am through 4:00pm at 303-724-2109.

Please join the MSA Course Director and Associate Directors in a day of recognition for the University of Colorado, School of Medicine Class of 2015. It is only with faculty such as yourself, that we are able to provide an opportunity for students to explore their interests and engage in a self-directed learning experience prior to graduation.

With a location like Colorado, we encounter a fair number of cases involving altitude sickness. HAPE or High Altitude Pulmonary Edema is one of the more severe types. How do you find the right articles when looking at the journal literature? The closest Medical Subject Heading for this condition is Altitude Sickness. The search “Altitude Sickness”[MeSH] retrieves at least 2740 citations in PubMed. Synonym keywords you might include for better coverage for your search: Altitude Sickness (2805), Altitude Sicknesses (1), Mountain Sickness (1184), Mountain Sicknesses (1) and you might have other phrases or wording that you might decide to use as well. If you want to focus on particular type of altitude sickness you might need to use keywords and phrases like: HAPE (329) or “high altitude pulmonary edema” (500) or “high altitude pulmonary oedema” (114). This table gives you an idea of how including different synonym phrases can affect the quality of your search retrieval.

Here’s a quick post to introduce a new column/category of the Health Sciences Library News blog. As we have opportunities to interact with and learn from our clinical faculty and staff, we’ll turn that information around and put it out there to our broader clinical audience. Researchers and educators might find it of interest as well. In general, anything that builds synergy and collaboration is probably a good thing.

We already have one posting in Clinical Corner about our new subscription to JAMAevidence, which can help you around all evidence-based medicine searching, article critiques and teaching. Any time you want to see the postings in the Clinical Corner, all you need to do is choose the Clinical Corner category from the Categories drop down menu and there you’ll have it.

Anyway, don’t hesitate to comment on the post or contact me if you have clinical pearls, questions or great resource suggestions that we should consider for this new part of the HSLNews.

PubMed’s Clinical Queries can save you time when trying to incorporate evidence based medicine or evidence based practice into the fast-paced and time sensitive clinical environment or other patient settings. Clinical Queries gives you a fast and easy way to throw in a few search terms and limit to one of five categories – Therapy, Etiology (Harm/Causation), Prognosis, Diagnosis, & Clinical Prediction Guide – and begin to see some of the best types of articles related to the category and your search terms. Clinical Queries also allows you to limit the scope of your search to Broad/Sensitive – where the search includes more citations even if they may be more peripheral or less relevant – or Narrow/Specific – where the search may miss some citations but is trying to identify the most relevant core citations. When you search Clinical Queries to find citations concerning the prevention of deep vein thrombosis (dvt) with the use of compression stockings during traveling, you’ll get results similar to this (Table results searched as of 3/25/2013).

You can see that as you add applicable search terms with the Boolean operator ‘AND’ you can quickly reduce the number of appropriate citations that you’ll need to wade through to find good relevant evidence to support or deny the use of compression stockings to prevent (prognosis) DVT when traveling.

If this is new to you, schedule a consultation with one of our librarians for more info about using Clinical Queries as well as other searching tips and tricks we can help you with.

At Internal Medicine Report involving a case of potential infection and heroin addiction, one of the infection vectors brought up was – did the person reuse needles? For a lot of practitioners that probably seems like a pretty obvious question but one of the Hospitalists brought up a couple of other transmission vectors for practitioners to consider when looking for potential infection sources when dealing with needle administered drug addictions. Here’s 3 things to think about when working with potential infection and a needle drug addiction:

Does the person reuse needles?

Does the person lick the needle before injection?

Has the person put the needle plunger in their ear?

The hospitalist conveyed that a wide held belief among injection drug users is that licking the needle will make the tip sharper and therefore ease the insertion. You can easily see that if this is their practice, injection drug users are opening themselves up to any number of contaminates from the mouth and saliva.

Did they stick the plunger where? Apparently as needle plungers become less effective, addicts may use ear wax to create a tighter seal to prolong the use of the needle which introduces another transmission vector for infections or pathogens.

If you know of other journal articles, pearls or questions like this or have anything else to add, please comment below or send me the information to update this posting – John.Jones@ucdenver.edu.